The Best TV and Movie Characters with Eye Patches

Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise), Valkyrie

Reason for Eye Patch: According to the movie, he is injured during an attack in Tunisia during World War II. His injuries resulted in the loss of his eye, right hand and two fingers on his left hand.
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Photo by: United Artists

Elle Driver (Darryl Hannah), Kill Bill

Steve "Patch" Johnson (Stephen Nichols), Days of our Lives

Reason for Eye Patch: He lost his eye in a knife fight when he and and best friend Bo Brady were competing for the same woman. Though he received a glass eye for a short time, it was eventually broken, and he resumed wearing the patch.
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Photo by: Mitchell Haaseth/NBC

Number Two (Robert Wagner), The Austin Powers Trilogy

Reason for Eye Patch: His character is an homage to the James Bond villain in Thunderball. It is believed that he can actually see with his covered eye, as the patch is rigged with X-ray vision in the first film.
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Photo by: Melinda Sue Gordon/New Line

Colonel Saul Tigh (Michael Hogan), Battlestar Galactica

Reason for Eye Patch: His eye was ripped out by the Cylons while he was being interrogated and tortured for committing crimes of terrorism against them.
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Photo by: Carole Segal/Sci Fi Channel

Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody (Brendan Gleeson), The Harry Potter Series
Reason for Eye Patch: He lost his eye in the First Wizarding War, and replaced it with a magical eye.
Photo by: Warner Bros.

Mikhail Bakunin (Andrew Divoff), Lost

Reason for Eye Patch: Unknown. Perhaps he lost his eye fighting with the Soviets in Afghanistan (though his history could be a lie) or when "purging" the DHARMA initiative from the island with the rest of the Others.
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Photo by: Mario Perez/ABC

One-Eyed Willie, Goonies

Daniel "Big Dan" Teague (John Goodman), O Brother Where Art Thou?
Reason for Eye Patch: Unknown, but we have to give props to the Coen Brothers for working in The Odyssey's Cyclops so creatively.
Photo by: Buena Vista Pictures/Everett Collection

Vernon Schillinger (J.K Simmons), Oz

Reason for Eye Patch: Glass flies into his eye after another prisoner shatters the door to his cell.
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Photo by: HBO

Nadine Hurley (Wendy Robie), Twin Peaks

Reason for Eye Patch: She lost her eye during a hunting accident on her honeymoon with Big Ed.
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Photo by: Spelling Entertainment/Everett Collection